Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.97, English translation, including word-by-word: This text represents a Vaishnava scripture which narrates the life Krishna, It was composed in seventeen cantos by Garga Muni: an ancient sage and priest of the Yadu dynasty having. This is verse 5 of Chapter 24 (The Killing of the Kola Demon) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

घोटकं दश-साहस्रं
रथानां शतकं तथा
द्विपं सहस्रं गाश् चैव
दिक्-सहस्रं ददौ मुदा

ghoṭakaṃ daśa-sāhasraṃ
rathānāṃ śatakaṃ tathā
dvipaṃ sahasraṃ gāś caiva
dik-sahasraṃ dadau mudā

ghoṭakam—horses; daśa-sāhasram—tne thousand; rathānām—chariots; śatakam—a hundred; tathā—then; dvipam—elephants; sahasram—a thousand; gāḥ—cows; ca—and; eva—indeed; dik-sahasram—ten thousand; dadau—gave; mudāhappily.

English translation of verse 5.24.97:

He happily gave ten thousand horses, one thousand chariots, one thousand elephants, and ten thousand cows.

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